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I HARNESS SADDLE PAD. No. 331,509. i Patented Dec. 1, 1885..

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HARNESS-SADDLE PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 331,509, dated December1, 1885.

Application filed February 6, 1885. Serial No. 155,155. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HUGO LEIBE, a citizen of the United States, residingat Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Gig-Saddle Pads, of which thefollowing is aspecification.

My invention relates to an improvement in gig-saddle pads, and has forits object to produce and stitch by machinery a pad in which a givenwidth of flap will havea pad of broader face than any heretofore somade, and which, when finished, will have the appearance of allhand-made pads.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention and show the parts asthey appear in the different progressive stages of the manufacture.

Figure 1 is a view of the pad-cover, showing the two reed'coversstitched thereto. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same. Fig. 3 is across-section of the flap with the pad-cover and reed-covers bowed readyfor attachment to the flap. Fig. 4 is a view of the flap and padcoverattached to it with the reeds. Fig. 5 is another View of the same. Fig.6 is a view of the pad-spreader. Fig. 7 is a view of the pad material.Fig. 8 is a cross-section of the finished pad on a larger scale. Fig. 9is a view of a gig-saddle with the improved pad.

The letter A designates the flap or upper back-piece of a gig-saddle; b,the padcover, which forms the lower face of the pad and confines thestuffing or pad material 0.

The different steps or stages in the manufacture of the pad will now bedescribed in regular order or sequence. Two strips of suitable materialto form the reed-covers d are each folded longitudinally by bringing thetwo edges of the strip together. These folded strips are next placed onthe outer surface of the pad-cover, the two edges of each reed-stripbeing next to and extending with one of the edges of the pad-cover andthen secured by a row of stitching, d, as shown in Fig. 1. The reeds eare then inserted in the reed-covers. The pad-cover b is then bowedlongitudinally, as shown in Fig. 3, so that the two edges, d of onereed-cover will confront the two edges of the other reedcover, and inthis position the 50 reed-covers are placed against the inner surface ofthe flap A, one reed-cover extending along each edge thereof, and eachreed-cover is then secured to the flap by a row of stitches, f, madewith a machine and located between the reeds e and the first-named rowof stitching. By this means thepad-cover and flap are formed into atube, as shown by Figs. 4 and 5, for the reception of the stuffing orpad ma terial.

The harness-pad tube herein described is an article in itself andaccomplishes the object of this invention. It is adapted for thereception of the stuffing, which, as stated, may consist of difl'erentmaterial, and may be inserted in severalways.

A pad-spreader, 9, consists of thin but suitably stiff materialsuch aspasteboard, wood, or sheet metal-broad enough, when in the tube, tospread the pad-cover over the rows of stitching f along each edge. Thespreader g is inserted or slipped endwise in the tube, and the stuffingc has position between the said spreader and pad-cover.

The stuffing or pad material 0 may be inserted or placed in position inseveral ways:

First. The felt or other pad material, Fig. 7, may be placed on theinnersurface of the padcover after the reed-covers have been stitchedthereto, and attached to said pad-cover by paste; or the pad materialand its cover may be attached by the formation of tufts by a thread inthe usual way. WVhen done in this way,the pad-cover is bowed, as shownin Fig. 3, and the pad material, as well as the reedcovers is placedagainst the inner surface of the flap, and then the rows f of stitchesare made and the spreader inserted.

Second. The felt or other pad material may be pasted upon thepad-spreader g, which then, with the pad material on it, is slipped oringo serted endwise in the tube.

Third. Gurled hair instead of felt may be used as the pad material andstuffed in the tube after the insertion of the spreader.

By stitching the pad-cover b to the flap A 5 and then inserting in thetube thus formed the spreader g the face I) of the pad, (see Figs. 8 and9,) which is to rest upon the animals back, is made broader than hasheretofore been the case with machinemade pads, and the rows f of rcostitching which secure the pad-cover to the flap are on the pad sidehidden from View.

Heretofore harness-saddle pads have been made by formingthe pad-coverand stuffing it complete with reed-covers attached, and then lastlyattaching the stuffed pad to the flap or upperback-pieceby lacing, whichis a hand operation. In some of the pads thus made a two-sided cover isemployed and sewed together with the reed-covers between and so as to beinclosed by the two sides, and then the outside part of the cover wasslit from end to end and turned to bring the reed-covers outward, andfinally the edges of the outside part which was slit were sewedtogether, thus forming a tube for the stuffing material. When stuffed,the said tube was laced to the flap or upper back-piece. In other casesthe padcover with the stuffing material in it has had the reed-coversattached thereto by stitches running entirely through the stuffing,andthen, as already stated, the completed pad was attached to the flap orupper back-piece by handlacing. My invention differs from all these inthat I can produce an empty tube, of which the flap or upper back-pieceis a part, which may be stuffed in various ways. By first sewing thereed-covers d to the pad-face cover I),

and without the stitches running through the stuffing, as heretofore,and then by a separate machines, which has the appearance in large partof all-handmade pads.

Having described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by LettersPatent of the United States- The improvement in the manufacture ofharnesssaddle pads,consisting of the hereindescribed pad-tube as anarticle having each of the two reed-covers d secured to the lowerface-cover, b, by a row of stitching, d, and to the fiap or upperback-piece, A, by a row of stitching, f, located between the reeds andthe first-named row of stitching, as set forth.

In testimony whereof Iaffix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HUGO LEIBE.

Witnesses:

JOHN E. MoRRIs, WM. B. NELsoN.

